ABSTRACT
Psychology is both a life science and a human science, guided by an evolutionary assumption that connects humans to other animals in terms of both physiology and human behavior. Brown collected a list of some 200 "human universals", among them many that are directly relevant to the psychology of religion: Anthropomorphization, taboos, rites of passage, death rituals, and beliefs about infectious diseases, beliefs about fortune and misfortune, belief in supernatural/religion, myths and divination. Support for particular religious beliefs is the main measure of religiosity, which is then related to other beliefs, and to psychological and behavioral indicators. The essentials appearing in tens of thousands of belief systems lead to the definition: Religion is a belief system which includes the notion of a supernatural, invisible world, inhabited by gods, human souls, angels, demons, and other conscious spirit entities. Glock proposed five dimensions for the measurement of religiosity in modern society: ideological, intellectual, ritualistic, experiential and consequential.
